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Rice's Democracy Tour

Updated March 21, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

"The President made a major point in his inaugural address that democracy, the discussion of democracy, would have to be an issue with every country in the world. And so that is also true here in Pakistan," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week, explaining her call for democratic reforms during a visit to Islamabad.

In the three and a half years since President Gen. Pervez Musharraf made his brave choice in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to commit his country wholeheartedly to the pursuit of al...